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11/08/2015
Queen's Awarded £3.6m From Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK has awarded £3.6m to Queen's University, aimed at developing a national digital pathology programme to assist and accelerate the delivery of Precision Medicine in the UK.
The CRUK Accelerator Award brings together a consortium of cancer pathologists, biologists and immunologists from the Belfast Cancer Research UK Centre, who will work in partnership with researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Manchester and Newcastle, University College London and the Institute of Cancer Research.
Queen's Professor David Waugh, Director of the Centre for Cancer Centre and Cell Biology, said: "The selection of this research programme submitted by the Belfast CRUK Centre is further proof that Queen's cancer researchers are at the cutting edge of the latest innovations to improve outcomes for cancer patients across the world. Through this new research programme we will develop knowledge that can inform the targeted use of immunotherapeutic agents in cancer patients.
"We are thrilled to receive this award and I congratulate my colleagues Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez and Professor Peter Hamilton, in leading this successful bid. It is further recognition of the powerful alliance that our Centre is forging with local and international industry to deliver new advances in cancer care."
(CD/JP)
The CRUK Accelerator Award brings together a consortium of cancer pathologists, biologists and immunologists from the Belfast Cancer Research UK Centre, who will work in partnership with researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Manchester and Newcastle, University College London and the Institute of Cancer Research.
Queen's Professor David Waugh, Director of the Centre for Cancer Centre and Cell Biology, said: "The selection of this research programme submitted by the Belfast CRUK Centre is further proof that Queen's cancer researchers are at the cutting edge of the latest innovations to improve outcomes for cancer patients across the world. Through this new research programme we will develop knowledge that can inform the targeted use of immunotherapeutic agents in cancer patients.
"We are thrilled to receive this award and I congratulate my colleagues Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez and Professor Peter Hamilton, in leading this successful bid. It is further recognition of the powerful alliance that our Centre is forging with local and international industry to deliver new advances in cancer care."
(CD/JP)
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